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THE 



ORIGINAL INSTITUTION 



GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE 



CINCINNATI, 



AS FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 



REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 



WHICH GAYE INDEPENDENCE TO 



AMERICA. 



TOGETHER WITH THE RULES AND BY-LAWS 



STATE SOCIETY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, 



AS ADOPTED JULY 4 til, 1848. 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER, FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS 
OF THE SOCIETY. 



CHARLESTON, S. C. 



PRINTED BY WALKER AND J A M.E S , 



;eis- 



1849. 



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THE 



ORIGINAL INSTITUTION 



GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE 

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CINCINNATI 



AS FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, 
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 



REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 

WHICH GAVE INDEPENDENCE TO 

AMERICA. 

TOGETHER WITH THE RULES AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

STATE SOCIETY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, 

AS ADOPTED JIL.Y 4tl», 1848. 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER, FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS 
OF THE SOCIETY. 



CHARLESTON, S. C. 

PRINTED BY WALKER AND JAMES. 

1849. 



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PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 



WITH THE 



ORIGINAL INSTITUTION OF THE ORDER. 



CANTONMENT OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, ON HUDSON'S RIVER, 10th MAY, 1783, 

Proposals for establishing a Society, upon principles 
therein mentioned, whose members shall be officers of the 
American Army, having been communicated to the several 
regiments of the respective lines, they appointed an officer 
from each, who, in conjunction with the general officers, should 
take the same into consideration, at their meeting this day, at 
which the Honorable Major General Baron de Steuben, the 
senior officer present, was pleased to preside. 

The proposals being read, iully considered, paragraph by 
paragraph, and the amendments agreed to, 

Major-General Knox, 

Brigadier-General Hand, 

Brigadier-General Huntingdon, and 

Captain Shaw, 
were chosen to revise the same, and prepare a copy to be laid 
before this Assembly at their next meeting, to be holden at 
Major-General Baron de Steuben's quarters, on Tuesday, the 
13th instant. 



Tuesday, 13th May, 1783. 
The representatives of the American Army being assembled, 
*reeably to adjournment, the plan for establishing a Society, 



whereof the officers of the American Army are to be members, 
is accepted, and is as follows, viz: 

"It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, 
in the disposition of human affairs, to cause the separation of 
the colonies of North- America from the domination of Great 
Britain, and after a bloody conflict of eight years, to establish 
them free, independent, and sovereign States, connected by 
alliances founded on reciprocal advantage, with some of the 
great princes and powers of the earth. 

" To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this 
vast event, as the mutual friendships which have been formed 
under the pressure of common danger, and, in many instances, 
cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the 
American Army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, 
associate, constitute and combine themselves into one Society 
of Friends, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of 
their eldest male posterity, and, in failure thereof, the collateral 
branches who may be judged worthy of becoming its supporters 
and members. 

" The officers of the American Army having generally been 
taken from the citizens of America, possess high veneration 
for the character of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius 
Cincinnatus, and being resolved to follow his example, by 
returning to their citizenship, they think they may with 
propriety denominate themselves the Society of the Cincinnati. 

" The following principles shall be immutable, and form the 
basis of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

"An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted 
rights and liberties of human nature for which they have 
fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational 
being is a curse instead of a blessing. 

"An unalterable determination to promote and cherish 
between the respective States, that union and national honor 
so essentially necessary to their happiness, and the future 
dignity of the American empire. 

"To render permanent the cordial affection subsisting among 
the officers: This spirit will dictate brotherly kindness in all 



tnings, and particularly extend to the most substantial acts of 
beneficence, according to the ability of the Society, towards 
those officers and their families, who unfortunately may be 
under the necessity of receiving it. 

"The General Society will, for the sake of frequent commu- 
nications, be divided into State Societies, and these again into 
such Districts as shall be directed by the State Society. 

" The Societies of the Districts to meet as often as shall be 
agreed upon by the State Society, those of the State on the 
fourth day of July, annually, or oftener, if they shall find it 
expedient, and the General Society on the first Monday in 
May, annually, so long as they shall deem it necessary, and 
afterwards, at least once in every three years. 

"At each meeting, the principles of the institut.on will be fully 
considered, and the best measures to promote them adopted. 

"The State Societies will consist of all the members resident 
in each State respectively; and any member removing from 
one State to another, is to be considered in all respects, as 
belonging to the Society of the Slate in which he shall actually 
reside. 

" The State Societies to have a President. Vice-President, 
Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer, to be chosen 
annually, by a majority of votes at the State meeting. 

"Each State meeting shall write annually, or oftener, if 
necessary, a circular letter, to the other State Societies, noting 
whatever they may think worthy of observation, respecting 
the good of the Society, or the general union of the States, 
and giving information of the officers chosen for the current 
year: copies of these letters shall be regularly transmitted to 
the Secretary-General of the Society, who' will record them in 
a book to be assigned for that purpose. 

"The State Society will regulate every thing respecting 
itself and the Societies of its districts consistent with the 
general maxims of the Cincinnati, judge of the qualifications 
of the members who may be proposed, and expel any member, 
who, by a conduct inconsistent with a gentleman and a man 
of honor; or by an opposition to the interests of the community 



in general, or the Society in particular, may render himself 
unworthy to continue a member. 

"In order to form funds which may be respectable, and 
assist the unfortunate, each officer shall deliver to the Treasurer 
of the State Society, one month's pay, which shall remain for 
ever to the use of the State Society; the interest only of which, 
if necessary, to be appropriated to the relief of the unfortunate. 

"Donations may be made by persons not of the Society, and 
by members of the Society, for the express purpose of forming 
permanent funds for the use of the State Society, and the in- 
terests of these donations appropriated in the same manner as 
that of the month's pay. 

" Monies, at the pleasure of each member, may be subscribed 
in the Societies of the Districts, or the State Societies, for the 
relief of the unfortunate members, or their widows and orphans, 
to be appropriated by the State Society only. 

" The meeting of the General Society shall consist of its 
officers and a representation from each State Society, in 
number not exceeding five, whose expenses shall be borne by 
their respective State Societies. 

"In the general meeting, the President, Vice-President, 
Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant 
Treasurer Generals, shall be chosen to serve until the next 
meeting. 

" The circular letters which have been written by the 
respective State Societies to each other, and their particular 
laws, shall be read and considered, and all measures concerted 
which may conduce to the general intendment of the Society. 

" It is probable that some persons may make donations to 
the General Society, for the purpose of establishing funds for 
the further comfort of the unfortunate, in which case, such 
donations must be placed in the hands of the Treasurer General, 
the interests only of which to be disposed of, if necessary, by 
the general meeting. 

" All the officers of the American Army, as well those who 
have resigned with honor, after three years service in the 
capacity of officers, or who have been deranged by the 



resolutions of Congress, upon the several reforms of the Army, 
as those who shall have continued to the end of the war, have 
the right to become parties to this institution; provided that 
they subscribe one month's pay, and sign their names to the 
general rules, in their respective State Societies, those who 
are present with the Army immediately, and others within six 
months after the army shall be disbanded, extraordinary cases 
excepted; the rank, time of service, resolution of Congress by 
which any have been deranged, and place of residence, must 
be added to each name, and as a testimony of affection to the 
memory and the offspring of such officers as have died in the 
service, their eldest male branches shall have the same right 
of becoming members, as the children of the -actual members 
of the Societ) r . 

" Those officers who are foreigners, not resident in any of 
the States, will have their names enrolled by the Secretary 
General, and are to be considered as members in the Societies 
of any of the States in which they may happen to be. 

"And as there are, and will at all times be, men in the 
respective States eminent for their abilities and patriotism, 
whose views may be directed to the same laudable objects 
with those of the Cincinnati, it shall be a rule to admit such 
characters, as honorary members of the Society, for their 
own lives only: Provided always, that the number of honorary 
members, in each State, does not exceed a ratio of one to four 
of the officers or their descendants. 

"Each State Society shall obtain a list of its members, and 
at the first annual meeting, the State Secretary shall have 
engrossed, on parchment, two copies of the institution of the 
Society, which every member present shall sign, and the Sec- 
retary shall endeavor to procure the signature of every absent 
member; one of those lists to be transmitted to the Secretary- 
General, to be kept in the archives of the Society, and the 
other to remain in the hands of the State Secretary. From 
the State lists, the Secretary-General must make out, at the 
first general meeting, a complete list of the whole Society, 
with a copy of which he will furnish each State Secretary. 



"The Society shall have an Order, by which its members 
shall be known and distinguished, which shall be a medal of* 
gold, of a proper size to receive the emblems, and suspended 
by a deep blue ribbon two inches wide, edged with white, 
descriptive of the union of France and America, viz: 

THE PRINCIPAL FIGURE 

CI NCINN ATUS, 

THREE SENATORS PRESENTING HIM WITH A SWORD 

AND OTHER MILITARY ENSIGNS— ON A 

FIELD IN THE BACK GROUND, 

HIS WIFE STANDING AT THE 

DOOR OF THEffi COTTAGE— NEAR IT A 

PLOUGH AND INSTRUMENTS OF HUSBANDRY, 

ROUND THE WHOLE, 

OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REMPUBLICAM. 

ON THE REVERSE, 

SUN RISING— A CITY WITH OPEN GATES AND VESSELS 

ENTERING THE PORT— FAME CROWNING 

CINCINNATUS WITH A WREATH INSCRIBED 

VIRTUTIS PRiEMIUM. 

BELOW, 

HANDS JOINED, SUPPORTING A HEART; 

WITH THE MOTTO, 

ESTO PERPETUA. 

ROUND THE WHOLE, 

SOCIETAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA. 
A. D. 1783. 

The society, deeply impressed with a sense of the generous 
assistance this country has received from France and desirous 
of perpetuating the friendships which have been formed, and 
so happily subsisted, between the officers of the allied forces, 
in the prosecution of the war; direct that the President 



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general transmit, as soon as may be, to each of the characters 
hereafternamed,a medal containing the Order of the society,viz. 
•His Excpllency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister 
Plenipotentiary , 

His Excellency the Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary, 

Their Excellencies 

the Count de Estaing, 
the Count de Grasse, 
the Count de Barras, 
the Chevalier de Touches, 
Admirals and Commanders in the Nam/. 
His Excellency the Count de Rociiambeau, Commander-in- 
Chief, 

And the Generals and Colonels of his army; and acquaint 
them, that the society does itself the honor to consider them 
members. 

Resoloed, That a copy of the aforegoing institution be given 
to the senior officer of each state line, and that the officers of 
the respective state lines sign their names to the same, in 
manner and form following, viz. 

"We the subscribers, officers of the American Army, do 
hereby voluntarily become parties to the foregoing institution, 
and do bind ourselves to observe, and be governed by the 
principles therein contained. For the performance whereof 
we do solemnly pledge to each other our sacred honor. 

Hone in the Cantonment on Hudson's River, in the year, 
1783." 

That the members of the society, at the time of subscribing 
their names to the institution, do also sign a draft on the pay- 
master-general, in the following terms (the regiments to do it 
regimentally, and the generals and other officers not belong- 
ing to regiments, each for himself, individually) viz. 

"7o John Pierce, Esquire, Pay-Master-General to the Army 
of the United States, 

Sir, — Please to pay to treasurer for the 

state association of the Cincinnati, or his 

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order, one month's pay of our several grades respectively, and 
deduct the same from the balance which shall be found due 
to us on the final liquidation of our accounts : for which this 
shall be your warrant." 

That the members of the several state societies assemble as 
soon as may be, for the choice of their president and other 
officers — and that the Presidents correspond together, and 
appoint a meeting of the officers who may be chosen for each 
state, in order to pursue such further measures as may be 
judged necessary. 

That the general officers, and the officers delegated, to 
represent the several corps of the army, subscribe to the 
institution of the general society, for themselves and their 
constituents, in the manner and form before prescribed. 
That General Heath, 

General Baron de Steuben, and 
General Knox, 
be a committee to wait on His Excellency the Commander- 
in-chief, with a copy of the institution, and request him to honor 
the society by placing his name at the head of it. 

That major general Heath, second in command in this 
army, be, and he hereby is, desired to transmit copies of the 
institution, with the proceedings thereon, to the commanding 
officer of the Southern Army, the senior officer in each state, 
from Pennsylvania to Georgia, inclusive, and to the comman- 
ding officer of the Rhode Island line, requesting them to com- 
municate the same to the officers under their several com- 
mands, and to take such measures as may appear to them ne- 
cessary for expediting the establishment of their state societies, 
and sending a delegation to represent them in the first general 
meeting to be holden on the first Monday in May, 1784. 

The meeting then adjourned without day. 
Cantonment of the American Army, 19th of June, 1783. 

At a meeting of the general officers, and the gentlemen 
delegated by the respective regiments, as a convention for 
establishing the society of the Cincinnati, held by the request 
of the president, at which were present — 



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Major -General Baron de Steuben, President. 

Major-Genei al Howe, 

Major-General Knox, 

Brigadier-General Patterson, 

Brigadier-General Hand, 

Brigadier-General Huntingdon. 

Brigadier-General Putnam, 

Colonel Webb, 

Lieutenant- Colonel Huntingdon, 

Major Pettengjll, 

Lieutenant Whiting, 

Colonel H. Jackson, 

Captain Shaw, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Hull, 

Lieutenant- Colonel Maxwell, 

Colonel Cortlandt. 
General baron de Steuben, acquainted the convention that 
he had, agreeably to their request, at the last meeting, 
transmitted to His Excellency the chevalier de la Luzerne, 
Minister Plenipotentiary from the court of France, a copy of 
the institution of the society of the Cincinnati, with their vote 
respecting his excellency, and the other characters therein 
mentioned ; and that his excellency had returned an answer 
declaring his acceptance of the same, and expressing the 
grateful sense he entertains of the honor conferred on himself, 
and the other gentlemen of the French nation, by this act of 
the convention. 

Resolved, That the letter of the chevalier de la Luzerne be 
recorded in the proceedings of this day, and deposited in the 
archives of the society, as a testimony of the high sense this 
convention entertains of the ho'nor done to the society by his 
becoming a member thereof. 
The letter is as follows : 

PhiladelpJiie, le 3 Jimj,1783. 
"Monsieur le Baron, 

"J'ai recti avec be.aucoup de reconnoissance les statuts de l'orrde 
respectable que messieurs les officiers de la'mee Americaine vienn- 



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ent de fonder: si le courage, la patience & toutes les vertus que 
cette brave arraee a si souvent deployees dans le cours de cette 
guerre, pouvoient jamais etre oublies, ce monument seul les 
rapelleroit. 

"J'ose vous assurer, monsieur, que tous les officers de ma nation, 
que vous avez bien voulu admettre dans votre societe, en seront 
infiniment honores ; je vous prie d'etre bien persuade que je sens, en 
mon particulier, bien vivement l'honneur que m'ont fait messieurs 
les officiers de l'armee en daignant penser a moi dans cette occasion. 
Je compte aller rendre mes devoirs a son excellence le general 
Washington, aussitot que le traite definitif sera signe, et j'aurais 1' 
honneur de les assurer de vive voix de ma respectueuse reconnois- 
sance. 

"Je saisis avec un grand empressement cette occasion de vous 
renouveller les sentiments du tres paifait et ties respectueux attach- 
ment avec lesquels j'ai l'honneur d'etre, 
Monsieur le Baron, 
votre Ires humble, & 
tres obeissant serviteur, 

Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. 

Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron de Steuben, Major-ge'nc'ral au 
service des Etals Unis, au Qitarlier General." 



Philadelphia, 3d June, 1783. 
SIR, 

"I have received, with much gratitude, the institution of 
the respectable order that the officers of the American Army 
have founded ; if courage, patience, and all the virtues that 
this brave army have so often displayed in the course of this 
war could ever be forgotten, this monument alone should 
recal them. I dare assure you, sir, that all the officers of my 
nation, that you have been pleased to admit in your society, 
will be infinitely honored by it. I pray you to be fully 
persuaded I feel, for my part, in the most lively manner, the 
honor the officers of the army have done me, in deigning to 
think of me upon this occasion. 

I expect to pay my respects to his excellency General 
Washington, as soon as the definitive treaty shall be signed, 



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and I shall have the honor of assuring them, personally, of 
my respectful acknowledgment. 

I seize with great eagerness, this occasion of expressing to 
you the sentiments of the most perfect and most respectful 
attachment with which I have the honor to be, 
Sir, your very humble, 

and very obedient servant, 

Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. 

To Baron de Steuben, Major-General 

in the service of the United States, 

Head Quarters " 

The Baron having also communicated a letter from major 
l'Enfant, enclosing a design for the medal and order, contain- 
ing the emblems of the institution. 

Resolved, That the bald eagle, carrying the emblem on its 
breast, be established as the order of the society; and that 
the ideas of major l'Enfant, respecting it and the manner of 
its being worn by the members, be adopted. That the order 
be of the same size, and in every other respect conformable 
to the said design, which for that purpose, is certified by the 
Baron de Steuben, president of this convention, and to be 
deposited in the archives of the society, as the original, from 
which all copies are to be made. Also that silver medals, 
not exceeding the size of a Spanish milled dollar, with the 
emblems, as designed by major l'Enfant, and certified by the 
president, be given to each and every member of the society, 
together with a diploma, on parchment, whereon shall be 
impressed the exact figures of the order and medal, as above 
mentioned, any thing in the original institution, respecting 
gold medals, to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Major l'Enfant's letter is as follows : 

"Philadelphie, le 10 Juin, 1763. 

Mon General, 

Aussitot apres la reception de votre lettre en date du 20 Mai, la- 
quelle ne m'est parvenu que le 7, ayant ete par hazard a la poste, je 
me suis occupe des projets de la medaille. Je vous envoie les 
desseins de deux faces, que j'ai faits, en grand, a fin qu'on puisse 



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mieux juger de l'ensemble. Lors de l'execution on ]a reduira a la 
grandeur convenable, qui pour peu que l'on exige de precision dansle 
dessein, ne doit pas etre plus petite qu'un dollar, le sujet se trouvant 
trop complique pour que les details puissent etre apercus sous une 
plus petite dimension. 

Je ne l'ai point faite ovale, ainsi que vous me le demandez, vu que 
cette forme est peu propre a une medaille ; d'ailleurs, on pourra 
toujours la faire au moment de l'execution, si on persiste absolument 
a vouloir porter I'ordre sous cette forme, a laquelle je crois que tout 
autre seroit preferable; ainsi que je crois et espere que vous en 
serez bien persuade, & ferez en sorte d'en convaincre les personnes 
qui composent le comite relatif a cette institution, auxquelles je vous 
prie de communiquer les observations suivantes. 

La medaille, ronde ou ovale, n'est considered dans les differents 
etats de l'Europe que comme une recompense d'artiste, d'artisan, ou 
comme une signe de communaute de fabriquants ou societe religieuse 
— en outre, l'usage abusif que Ton en fait, particulierement en 
Allemagne & en Ilalie, d'ou il arrive en Fiance, des baladins, des 
musiciens, decores de cette maniere, rend necessaire de distinguer 
cet ordre par une forme qui lui soit particuliere, et puisse, en 
honorant celui qui en sera decore, remplir le double object de se 
faire respecter par son simple aspect, de ceux memes qui ne seront 
pas apurtee d'en detailler les differents empreintes. 

Ce n'est pas que je croie qu'une forme, ou une autre changera 
l'opinion d'un peuple republicain accoutume a penser, mais je dis, 
que dans une institution pareille, le premier but doit etre de se 
rendre respectable a tons les peuples du mon r 'e # ; et que ce n'est qu' 
en parlant aux yeu\ qu'on attire l'attention du vulgaire, qu'il y a des 
prejujjes d'habitude qui ne peuvent etre detruits — qu'un homme 
qualifies et deji decore en Europe ne portera pas une meJaille, ou, si 
flaite de recevoir une marque de distinction d'une societe respec. 
table, il la portait, ce seroit d'une maniere peu propre a faire 
accrediter la valeur de I'ordre. Qu'au contraire, en lui donnant une 
forme nouvelle en particulier, ce sera ajouter a sa valeur reelle, 
celle de la rendre recommendable, en engageant ceux qui en seront 
decores a. en faire parade de pair avec les autres ordres militaire, ce 
qui est le plus sur moyen de la mettre d'abord de niveau avec eux. 

Le bald aigle qui est particulier a ce continent et qui se distingue 
a celui des autres climats, par sa tete et sa queue blanche, m'a paru 
meriter de l'attention. 



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Je vous envoie deux essais que j'ai faits ; je desire que Pun des 
deux puisse etre adoptc au lieu et place de la medaille, Datis l'un, 
je fais l'aigle supportant une etoile, ;\ treize pointes, dans le centre 
de la quelle est renfermee la figure de la medaille avec les inscrip- 
tions, tant sur la face que sur le revers. On pourroit ajouter une 
legende dans les series et autour du col de l'aigle, avec une 
inscription particuliere, ou bien y transferer celle du contour de la 
medaille. Dans l'autre, j'ai fait l'aigle simplement portant sur sa 
poitr . la figure de la medaille, avdc une legende dans ses serres et 
autour du col, laquelle lui repasse par derriere le dos pour soutenir 
le revers. Je prelererois le dernier, en ce qu'il n'a rapport a aucun 
ordre et porte avec lui un characture distinctif et ne seroit pas fort 
dispendieux a faire executer. Le premier menee, quoique plus 
complique ne revieneroit pas aussi cher qu'on pourroit ie penser, 
toute fois qu'on en chargeroit des personnes capables de 1'exeeuter ; 
ce qui ne peut avoir lieu non plus que relativement a la medaille qu' 
en l'envoyant en Europe ce qui n'exigeroit pas beaucoup de terns, 
et ne seroit pas si dispendieux, que d'en confier l'cxecution a des 
personnes incapables. 

Une medaille est une monument qui passe a la posterite, rt par 
consequent il est necessaire qu'elle suit poitce au dogrC- de perfection 
possible dans le siocle ou elle est frappee. Or, bien frapper une 
medaille est une chose qui demande de Thabitude et un bon coin, or 
il n'y a ici ni balancier propre a cette besogne ni gens capables de 
faire un bon coin, je me chargerois volontiers de recornmender 
1'execution de la medaille, de l'aigle ou ordre, a gens capables de 
1'execution a Paris. 

Bien loin que je propose de changer la medaille ovale en un aigle 
sur lequel seroit empreint cette medaille, je ne pretends pas dire qu, 
ils ne savent pas frapper des medailles. Au conlraire, voici qu'elle 
est mon idee a ce sujet. 

" On pourroit faire frapper ici des medailles d'argent aux frais 
communs de la societe, et en distribuer une a chacun de ses membres 
comme une titreadapte a la patente de parchemiri, sur laquelle il sera 
aussi apropos de graver la figure de la medaille, la forme de l'ai°-]e 
ou de l'etoile, avec sa plus grande dimension, detaillant les couleurs 
en soignant de s'y conformer, laissant la liberte aux chevaliers que 
s'en pourvoyeront a leurs depens, de la faire de tel metal, et aussi 
petite que possible, sans alteration d'aucun des emblemes. II ne me 
paroit pas non plus a propos que les chevaliers honoraires portassent 



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1'ordre pareil aux chevaliers do droit. II faudroit qu'on signifat 
qu'ils portassent la medaille, ou l'etoile, ou l'aigle en sautoir, et les 
chevaliers a la 3;tie. boutoniere. 

Mnn general, ces sont les remarques que je vous prie ds faire 
traduire, et de les soummetre a I'opinion generale. Je vous serais 
oblige de me faire savoir quelle issue cette lettre aura & quelle sera 
la decision qu'on en donnera. 

J'ai, &c. &c. &c. 

L'ENFANT. 

M N. B. La tete et la queue de l'aigle seroient d'argent ou emaillees 
en blanc, le coips et les ailes d'or, la medaille sur sa poitrine et sur 
son dos, emaillee en couleur de meine que la legende. On pourroit y 
ajouter des branches de laurier et de chene dans les ailes, pour lors 
qu'on emailleroit en vert: Petoile du medaillbn seroit pointee en or, 
ou emaillee bleu et blanc, ceux qui voudroient faire le depense pour- 
raient avoir en diamant tout ce qui est blanc. Le ruban seroit moire 
connne celui de tout les autres ordres. 



"Philadelphia, 10th June, 1783. 
My General, 

Immediately on receiving your letter of the 20th May, which 
I met by accident at the Post-Office, on the 7th inst., I set my- 
self about the plan of the medal. I send you both faces of the 
design, which I have made large so that you may better judge 
of them. In the execution they can be reduced to a convenient 
size, which, on account of the precision required in the design 
ought not to be less than a dollar, the subject being too complex 
to admit of its being properly detailed in a smaller compass. 

" I have not made it oval, agreeably to your desire, as such 
a form is not proper for a medal; besides, it can be done in 
the execution, if the idea should be persisted in of having the 
order in that form, to which, however, I think any other 
preferable. I also believe and hope that you will be persuaded 
of this, and endeavor to convince the gentlemen of it, who 
compose the committee for forming the institution, and to 
whom, I beg you to communicate the following observations. 



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" A medal, whether round or oval, is considered in the 
different States of Europe, only as the reward of the laborer 
and the artist, or as a sign of a manufacturing community, or 
religious society; besides, the abusive custom prevailing 
particularly in Germany and Italy, of sending to France, 
mountebanks, dancers, and musicians, ornamented in this 
manner, renders it necessary to distinguish this order by a 
form which shall be peculiar to itself, and which will answer 
the two-fold purpose of honoring those invested with it, and 
making itself respected, for its simplicity, by such as may be 
in a situation, minutely to examine its different parts. 

"Not that I suppose one form or another will change the 
opinion of a republican people, accustomed to think; I only 
say, that in an institution of this sort, the main design should 
be to render it respectable to every body, and that it is only 
in appealing to the senses that you can engage the attention 
of the common people, who have certain habitual prejudices 
which cannot be destroyed. A gentleman already invested 
with any European order, would be unwilling to carry a 
medal, but, if flattered by receiving a mark of distinction from 
a respectable Society, he should do it, the manner of it would 
by no means increase the value of the order. On the contrary* 
giving it a new and particular form will be adding a recom- 
mendation to its real value, and engage those invested with it 
to wear it in the same manner as their other military orders, 
which is the surest means of putting it at once upon a footing 
with them. 

"The bald eagle, which is peculiar to this continent, and is 
distinguished from those of other climates, by its white head 
and tail, appears to me to deserve attention. 

I send you two essays which I have made, and desire one 
of them may be adopted instead of the medal. In one, I make 
the eagle supporting a star with thirteen points, in the centre 
of which is the figure of the medal, with its inscriptions, as 
well in front as on the reverse. A legend might be added in 
the claws and go round the neck of the Eagle, with a 
particular inscription, or the contour of the medal transferred 
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there. In the other I have made simply the eagle, supporting 
on its breast the figure of the medal, with a legend in his claws 
and about the neck, which passes behind and sustains the 
reverse. I would prefer the latter, as it does not resemble 
any other order, and bears a distinct character; nor will it be 
expensive in its execution. The first device, although more 
complex, would not be so dear as people might imagine, 
especially if the execution ol it should be committed to skilful 
persons, which would not be the case any more than with the 
medal, but by sending it to Europe, where it would not take 
up a great deal of time, nor be so expensive as to trust the 
execution of it here to workmen not well acquainted with the 
business. 

" A medal is a monument to be transmitted to posterity; 
and, consequently, it is necessary that it be executed to the 
highest degree of perfection possible in the age in which ft is 
struck. Now, to strike a medal well, is a matter that requires 
practice and a good die; and as there is not here, either a 
press proper for this work, nor people who can make a good 
die, I would willingly undertake to recommend the execution 
of the medal, the eagle, or the order, to such persons in Paris, 
as are capable of executing it to perfection. 

"So far from proposing to change the oval medal into an 
eagle, on which should be impressed the medal, I do not 
pretend to say medals cannot be made; on the contrary, my 
idea of the subject is, that silver medals should be struck, at 
the common expense of the Society, and distributed, one to 
each member, as an appendage to a diploma of parchment, 
whereon it would be proper to stamp the figure of the medal, 
the eagle, or the star, in its full dimensions, and properly 
colored, enjoining on the members to conform to it, though 
leaving them the liberty, provided it be at their own expense, 
of having it made of such metal and as small as they please, 
without altering any of the emblems. It seems to me by no 
means proper, that the honorary members should wear the 
order in the same manner as the original members; it would 
be necessary that they should wear the medal, the star, or the 
eagle, round their necks, and the original members at the third 
button-hole. 



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"These remarks, I beg you, my General, to have translated 
and submitted to the gentlemen concerned. I shall be obliged 
to you to let me know the issue of this letter, and their decision 
upon it. 

I have, &c. &c. &o. 

L'ENFANT. 

",N. B. The head and tail of the eagle should be silver, or 
enamelled in white, the body and wings gold, the medal on its 
breast and back enamelled in the same color as the legend; 
sprigs of laurel and oak might be added in the wings and 
enamelled in green; the star should be pointed in gold, or 
enamelled in blue and white; those who would be at the 
expense, might, instear of white, have diamonds. The ribband, 
as is customary in all other orders, should be wav'd. 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be transmitted, 
by the President, to major L'Evfant, for his care and ingenuity 
in preparing the aforementioned designs, and that he be 
acquainted that they cheerfully embrace his offer of assistance, 
and request a continuance of his attention in carrying the 
designs into execution, for which purpose the President is 
desired to correspond with him. 

Resolved, That His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief be 
requested to officiate as President-General, until the first 
general meeting, to be held in May next. 

That a Treasurer-General and a Secretary-General be bal- 
lotted for, to officiate in like manner. 

The ballots being taken, Major-General M'Dougall was 
elected Treasurer-General, and Major-Gencral Knox, Secretary 
General, who are hereby requested to accept said appointments. 

Resolved, That all the proceedings of this Convention, 
including the institution of the Society, be recorded (from the 
original papers in his possession) by Captain Shaw, who at 
the first meeting was requested to act as Secretary, and that 
the same signed by the President and Secretary together with 
the original papers, be given into the hands of Major-General 
Knox, Secretary-General to the Society; and that Captain 



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North, Aid-de-Camp to the baron de Steuben, and acting 
Secretary to him as President, sign the said records. 

The dissolution of a very considerable part of the army, 
since the last meeting of this Convention, having rendered the 
attendance for some of its members impracticable, and the 
necessity of some temporary arrangements, previous to the 
first meeting of the General Society, being so strikingly obvious 
the Convention found itself constrained to make those before 
mentioned, which they have done with the utmost diffidence 
of themselves, and relying entirely on the candor of their 
constituents to make allowance for the measure: The piincipal 
objects of its appointment being thus accomplished, the mem- 
bers of this Convention think fit to dissolve the same, and it is 
hereby dissolved accordingly. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 

OF THE 

GBNEEAL SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 

HELD IN THE 

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,' IN MAY, 1800. 



Tuesday, May 6, 1800. 

It was moved by Mr. Bingham, and seconded by General 
Bloomfield, 

That a respectful testimonial to the memory of General 
Washington be entered on the records of the General Society 
of the Cincinnati, which was unanimously agreed to, and 

Mr. Bingham, Major Pinckney and General Dayton, were 
appointed a committee to prepare and report the same. 

Wednesday, May 7. 1800. 

Mr. Bingham, from the committee appointed for that purpose, 
reported the following testimonial of respect to the memory of 
General Washington, which was twice read, unanimously 
agreed to, and ordered to be entered on the records of the 
Society, as the first act of the present general meeting after 
its organization. 

Under the most profound impression of veneration and 
affection, the Society of the Cincinnati, at a general meeting, 
are called upon to express the mournful tribute of their sorrow, 
at that awful dispensation of Providence, which has recently 
removed from their councils, their much revered and lamented 
President-General, 

The arduous, though successful struggle which terminated 
in establishing the liberties of our country, and in which they 
fought under his banners, and shared with him the dangers 
and toils of the field, attached him to this Society by ties of 
the most intimate and endearing nature. His valor and 
prudence seemed to control the events of war, led the 



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American Armies to victory, and achieved the independence 
of their country. Whilst mingling their tears with those of 
their fellow-citizens, they are naturally impelled to pour out 
the effusions of a deep regret, for the irreparable loss which 
they have sustained. 

But it is not only in their relationship to this illustrious 
character, as soldiers, that the Society of the Cincinnati have 
cause to deplore his loss. 

When the storm of war had ceased to rage, and the blessings 
of peace had been restored, their country was suffering under 
the weakness of a confederation, which threatened the 
existence of that union, which their joint efforts in arms had 
so essentially contributed to establish. 

With his auspicious co-operation, a constitution was formed 
calculated by its wisdom and energy, to redeem us from that 
prostrate state, to which we had been reduced, and to restore 
that reputation which our country had lost, from the imbecility 
of the old system. The administration of the government 
was committed to his care, and his country will ever hold in 
grateful remembrance, the inflexible virtue and fortitude,with 
which he conducted its affairs, and saved it from the effects 
of domestic faction and foreign intrigue. 

After a second retirement from the active scenes of public 
life, in which his merits as a statesman, rivalled his fame as a 
soldier, his country at the approach of danger, again required 
his services. The crisis was important, and the situation 
delicate. A nation which had mingled its blood with ours, in 
the defence of our liberties, had now assumed a hostile 
appearance. A war from this unexpected quarter threatened 
the peace of our country. 

Washington, who never hesitated when urged by a sense 
of duty, obeyed the call of the government. He again 
abandoned his beloved retirement, hazarded a reputation, 
consummate in every point of view, and assumed the command 
of the armies. His military companions who had frequently 
witnessed the magnanimity of his conduct in seasons of 
adversity, as well as of triumph, felt the full force of their 
country's appeal to arms, whilst Washington was their leader. 



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In this momentous crisis of our affairs, by the inscrutable 
decrees of heaven, he was snatched from America and the 
world. 

Under this pressure of calamity, which more peculiarly 
operates upon the sensibilities of this Society, their only 
consolation is derived from the animating reflection, that 
although he is summoned to the enjoyment of the happy 
destinies of a future state, the bright example of his virtues 
and talents will still survive, and the inheritance of his name 
prove a future incentive to heroes and legislators, who will 
strive to emulate his fame, and merit the glory he has 
acquired. 



OFFICERS 

of the General Society of the Cincinnati, elected at the first meeting of 
delegates from the several state societies, held at philadelphia, in 

MAY, 1784. 



His Excellency Gen. G. WASHINGTON, 
Maj. Gen. HORATIO GATES, 
Maj. Gen. HENRY KNOX, 
Brig. Gen. O. H. WILLIAMS, 



President General. 
Vice-President General. 
Secretary General. 
Assistant Secretary General. 



OFFICERS 

ELECTED AT AN ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, IN MAY,1800, 
AFTER THE DEMISE OF His EXCELLENCY, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. 



Maj. Gen. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
Maj. Gen C. C PINCKNEY, 
Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON, 
Doctor NATHAN DORSEY, 
Brig. Gen. W. M'PHERSON, 



President General. 
Vice-President General. 
Secretary General. 
Assistant Secretary General. 
Treasurer General. 



OFFICERS 

ELECTED AT THE LAST TRIENNIAL MEETING, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, IN MAY, 1805, 
AFTER THE DEMISE OF MaJOR GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 



Maj. Gen. C. C. PINCKNEY, 
Maj. Gen. HENRY KNOX, 
Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON, 
Maj. WILLIAM D. BELL. 
Brig. Gen. W. M'PHERSON, 



President General. 
Vies- President General. 
Secretary General. 
Assistant Secretary General- 
Treasurer General. 



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EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS 



SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 

AT A QUARTERLY MEETING, HELD ON MONDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF 
OCTOBER, 1805. 

Resolved unanimously, That this Society do highly approve 
of the Eulogy on the character of the late Major-General 
Moultrie, voluntarily presented by a member, through the 
Secretary, and read before them; and that the same be entered 
on the Journals, as a mark of respect due from this Society, 
to their late venerable President. 

EULOGY. 

"The twenty-seventh of September, one thousand eight 
hundred and five, will long be remembered with interest by 
every virtuous citizen of South-Carolina. On that day, 
deeply regretted by every individual who had sense to appre- 
ciate, and gratitude to acknowledge the pre-eminence of his 
patriotic virtues, died in the seventy-fifth year of his age, the 
venerable Major General William Moultrie, who by uniform 
suffrage, had presided over this Society, from its first institu- 
tion. As a revolutionary character, his steadiness in principle, 
his valor in the field, were particularly conspicuous. As a 
soldier, it was his fortune to check with an effect that paral- 
ized every subsequent exertion, the first efforts of a powerful 
and inveterate foe, for the subjugation of his country. Bold 
as Leonidas, he defended the straight committed to his charge, 
against a superiority of force, that had been deemed irresistible, 
and more fortunate than the Spartan hero, lived in honorable 
old age under the shade of his laurels, to share with a grate- 
ful nation, the liberty his successful exertions had so happily 
contributed to establish. As a patriot it was equally his 
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glory, disdainfully to reject the bribes of a nation, who re- 
peatedly foiled by his valor, hoped with better success to^ 
corrupt his integrity, and like another Fabricius, to show to 
the admiring world, how insignificant the power of gold, to 
shake the principles of a heart, warmed with the genuine glow 
of heaven-born liberty. In private life, his disposition was 
frank, liberal, sincere; his manners simple and conciliating. 
Duplicity and disguise, were odious to a nature fixed on the 
firmest basis of candor and truth. As a husband, father, 
master, he was kind, gentle, most indulgent; in short, as has 
been said of a great statesman and distinguished patriot, he 
was every thing to his family, but what he gave up to his 
country. 

"When in future ages, men shall seek examples of distin- 
guished worth and excellence, fame with delight shall tell the 
unshaken faith, and gallant deeds of Moultrie. 

" While as brother soldiers we offer this sincere, though 
inadequate tribute of respect to his memory, it is with pleasure 
we reflect, that the Artillery, Cavalry and several volunteer 
corps of the city, together with a considerable concourse of 
the most respectable and patriotic of our citizens, attended 
his body to the grave, testifying their high respect for his 
virtues, and unfeigned sorrow, for the event which deprived 
his country of one of its most distinguished and estimable 
public characters." 



OFFICERS 

OF THE SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, ELECTED AT THEIR FIRST 
MEETING AT CHARLESTON, ON THE 29TH AUGUST, 1783. 



Major General WILLIAM MOULTRIE, 
Brigadier General ISAAC HUGER, 
Major THOMAS PINCKNEY, 
Captain CHARLES LINING, 
Lieutenant JAMES KENNEDY, 
Lieutenant SAMUEL BEEKMAN, ) 
JOHN SANDFORD DART, Esq., J' 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Secretary, 
Treasurer. 
Assistant Treasurer, 

Stewards. 



STANDING COMMITTEE APPOINTED ON THE 6tH OCTOBER, 1783. 

COLONEL CHARLES C. PINCKNEY. 



Colonel Bernard Beekman, 
Lieutenant Colonel W. Washington, 
Major Robert Forsyth, 



Captain Felix Warley, 
Lieutenant Charles Brown, 
Doctor David Oliphant. 



IttJLES AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI 

OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, 

ADOPTED ON THE 4tla JULY, 1848, 

UNDER ITS NEW ORGANIZATION, BEING NOW COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF DE- 
SCENDANTS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY 
• OF THE UNITED STATES. 

I. 

The Officers composing the State Society of the Cincinnati 
of South-Carolina, having assembled on the twenty-ninth day 
August, and on the thirteenth day of September, in the year 
one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and maturely 
considered the propositions and rules transmitted to Major 
General Moultrie, by Majors General Heath and Steuben 
respectively, and dated on the twentieth day of May and 
day of June of the same year, acceded to them with 
this reservation, that if any of the said propositions or rules 
should by any construction, be held obligatory on the Society 
to interfere in any manner whatsoever, with the civil polity 
of their own, or any other of the United States, or of the 
United States in General, the members thereof will not hold 
themselves in any respect bound by them, prizing too highly 
the civil liberties of their country, and their own rights as 
citizens, to consent that a military association should dictate 
to the civil authority. 

II. 

The Society are desirous to maintain the benevolent and 
charitable principles of the original institution, and for that 
purpose adopt this Rule: 

That whenever a member, his widow or descendants, shall 



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need the aid of the Society, application shall be made in the 
first place, to the Standing Committee, who shall examine into 
the merits thereof, and report the facts to the Society, together 
with their opinion, and such relief may be granted as the 
Society shall think fit. 

III. 

There shall be four general meetings of the Society in a 
year, viz : on the fourth day of July, which shall be considered 
as the anniversary of the Society, when the members shall 
dine together, gratefully commemorating it as the day of the 
Declaration of the Independence of the United States, and the 
commencement of the political existence of their citizens, as a 
free people; on the twenty-second of February, memorably 
distinguished as the birth-day of Washington, the father of 
his country, when the members shall also dine together; on the 
nineteenth of April, being the anniversary of the battle 
of Lexington, so honorable to the first efforts of the American 
arms; and on the nineteenth day of October, when the cap- 
ture of Cornwallis crowned them with the most brilliant 
success; and should any of them fall on Sunday, then the 
meeting shall be celebrated on the day following. And there 
shall be one special meeting on the evening of the third day 
of July, to prepare for the celebration of the next day, and to 
transact ordinary business, but should the third fall on Sunday 
then the meeting shall be held on the second. 

IV. 

At every Anniversary, each member shall contribute SIX 
dollars towards the funds of the Society; every member may 
bring or permit his own son or sons, or the son or sons of a 
deceased member, under the age of twenty-one years, to 
partake of the Anniversary dinner; Provided, that for each 
and every one of them over eighteen years, he shall pay to 
the Treasurer the sum of two dollars: And Provided also, 
That any member absent for a year or more at a time, in the 
service of the United States, or of South-Carolina, shall not 
be charged for contribution during such absence. 



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V. 

At every Anniversary there shall be chosen a President, 
Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, two Stewards, and 
two or more Delegates to represent the Society in the General 
Society; and in case of the death, resignation or removal of 
any of the above officers, another person or persons shall at 
the next ensuing General Meeting, be chosen to supply his or 
their place for the remaining part of the year. If at any 
meeting both the President and Vice-President should be 
absent, the members present may choose a Chairman- to 
preside, and proceed to transact the business of the Society. 

VI. 

All Officers, Delegates and Committees of the Society, shall 
continue vested with their respective authorities until others 
are appointed in their places. 

VII. 
No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the 
Society, unless nine of the members are present, who shall 
constitute a quorum. 

VIII. 

All questions proposed in the Society, shall be determined 
by a majority of the members present, voting vivd voce ; but 
the vote shall be taken by ballot should any three members 
demand it. 

IX. 

The Society shall be opened as soon as the President shall 
have taken the chair, and the Minutes of the preceding meet- 
ing read, and considered in session, till the President shall 
have declared the business closed. 

X. 

The President, or in his absence, the Vice-President, or in 
the absence of both, the Chairman of the Standing Committee 
shall have power to call an extra meeting, whenever it is his 
opinion that the affairs of the Society require it — giving such 
public notice as he shall deem necessary. 



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XL 

The President at each Anniversary, shall appoint a Standing 
Committee, to consist of seven members, besides the officers 
of the Society, and all members who choose to attend the 
meeting thereof shall have a right to debate and vote on any 
question laid before them for discussion. 

XII. 

It shall be the business of the Standing Committee to 
propose at the general meetings, any matter which they may 
consider as conducive to the benefit and advantage of the 
Society, to afford temporary relief to all such persons as by 
the rules of the Society are entitled to it, and transact all 
such business as cannot be postponed till a general meeting. 

XIII. 
The Secretary shall keep minutes of all the proceedings of 
the Society, and record all rules and by-laws, in a book to 
be particularly kept for that purpose; he shall likewise keep 
all letters to and copies of letters from the Society ; taking 
care that every transaction of the Society, and every occur- 
rence relating to it, as far as comes to his knowledge, be faith- 
fully registered and deposited in the archives. 

XIV. 

The Treasurer shall keep account of all monies received 
or disbursed on account of the Society. 

XV. 

All titles, stocks, bonds and other securities for money, 
shall be taken in the corporate name of the Society and 
made payable to the "Society of Cincinnati of the State of 
South-Carolina," no monies belonging to the Society shall be 
let out at interest, by the Treasurer, but with the consent of 
the Standing Committee, nor lent directly or indirectly to a 
member of the Society; nor shall any member be admitted to 
become surety for the monies lent. 



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XVI. 

The books and accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited 
and examined by the Standing Committee, or a special 
Committee, who shall on every anniversary lay the same 
before the Society. 

XVII. 

That all distinction between honorary and regular mem- 
bers be and the same is hereby abolished. All lineal male 
descendants of such persons as now are, have been, or may 
hereafter become members of the Society shall be eligible as 
members thereof; Provided that whenever there shall be no 
lineal descendants, the collateral males shall be entitled; 
and Provided also that the lineal descendants of a deceased 
member by a daughter shall be entitled in preference over 
'collateral male branches. 

XVIII. 

No person shall be elected a member of this Society 
except by ballot at a regular general meeting, by a majority 
of at least three- fourths of the members present; no person 
shall be ballotted for who has not been proposed at a 
previous regular general meeting of the Society, and the 
most sacred regard to secrecy shall be observed by the 
members on the occasion, that if the candidate should prove 
unsuccessful, the knowledge of his misfortune shall never 
transpire. 

XIX 

If any members of the Society shall die in such indigent 
circumstances that the expenses of his funeral cannot be 
properly defrayed by his estate, the same shall be disbursed 
by the Treasurer out of the funds of the Society. 

XX. 

No Rule or By-Law of this Society shall be altered nor 
shall any New Rule, or By-Law be made, until the same 
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has been proposed at one general meeting, and approved of, 
and agreed to at another. 

XXL 

No question of a political or religious character shall be 
discussed at any meeting of the Society. 



LIST OF THE MEMBERS 

OF THE 

SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 

FKOM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION ; THE RANK THEY HELD AT THE EXPIRATION 
OF THE WAR, AND THE STATE OR CORPS TO WHICH THEY WERE SEVERALLY.ATTACHED. 



NAMES. 



William Moultrie, 
Isaac Huger, 
Mordecai Gist, 
Charles C.Pinckney, 
Barnard Beekman, 
A mho. W. White, 
Francis Marion, 
Peter Horry, 
John F. Grimke, 
William Scott, 
Wm. Washington, 
Lewis Morris, 
Thomas Pinckney, 
Ephraim Mitchell, 
John Vanderhorst, 
Isaac Harleston, 
Samuel Taylor, 
Robert Forsyth, 
James Hamilton, 
Elnathan Haskill, 
Felix Warley, 
Joseph Warley, 
Simeon Theus, 
Thomas Shubrick, 
James Mitchell, 
Richard B. Baker, 
Adrien Proveaux, 
William Hext, 
Charles I ining, 
Harman Davis, 
Samuel Warren, 
Albert Roux, 
Lavacher, 
John Martin, 
Thomas Gadsden, 
Thomas Hall, 
John U. s^mith, 
Field Farrar, 
John Wickley, 
John Williamson, 
George Turner, 
John Hart, 
Peter Gray, 
George Warley, 
Daniel Mazyck, 
John Buchanan, 
Uriah Goodwyn, 
Richard B. Roberts, 





STATE 




RANK. 


OR 

CORPS. 


Remarks. 


Major General. 


South Carolina. 


Dead. 


Briga. General. 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditio 


Maryland. 


Dead. 


Colonel. 


South Carolina 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto. 


Dead. 


ditto 


1st Reg. L. D. 


Dead. 


Lt. Col. Comd't. 


South Carolina. 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


Lieut. Colonel. 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead- 


ditto 


3d Reg. L. D. 


Dead. 


ditto 


New York. 


Dead. 


Major. 


South Carolina. 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


Virginia. 


Dead- 


ditto 


Pennsylvania. 


Dead. 


ditto 


Massachusetts. 


Dead. 


Captain. 


South Carolina. 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditio 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead- 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead- 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 



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Thomas B. Bowen, 
Enos Keeves, 
John Markland, 
Daniel .VI' Lane, 
Benjamin Carter, 
Thomas Turner, 
George Melven, 
Patrick Carneg, 
Eflm. G. Coleman, 
JNath'l. Pendleton, 
Arc'd. MH'alester, 
Christian Senf, 
Jacob .^chreiber, 
William Tate, 
Henry Mooie, 
John Shivers Budd, 
Constant Freeman, 
John Goodwyn, 
John Hamilton, 
John Knap, 
James Legare, 
Thomas O. Russell, 
Charles Brown, 
Daniel D'Oyley, 
James Kennedy, 
William Ward, 
Samuel Beekman, 
Thomas I 'unbar, 
John Peter Ward, 
George Ogier, 
feteplien Mazyck, 
James Milligan, 
William Murren, 
George Reicl, 
Adam Gilchrist, 
James Johnston, 
Win. Thompson, 
Jonas Addoms, 
Thomas Hunt, 
Joseph Brevard, 
John Middleton, 
Alexander Garden, 
A. U. G. Elholm, 
Henry C. Flagg, 
Frederick Sunn, 
William Neufvilie, 
Joseph Blyth, 
Tho. H. M'Calla, 
James E. B. Finley 
Benjamin L. Perry, 
Robert VV harry. 



Stephen Drayton, 
John Mitchell, 
lohn S. Dart. 



Andrew D' Fluent, 
Henry Purcell, 
John Hurt, 



Captain. 

ditto 

ditto. 

ditto 

di to 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Captain Lieu't. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Lieutenant. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Cornet. 

ditto 

ditto 
Reg'l. Surgeon. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Reg. Sur. Mate. 



Pennsylvania. 

ditto 

ditto 
New-York- 
North ' 'arolina. 
Massachusetts. 

Georgia. 
Lee's Legion. 
Connecticut. 
Virginia. 
Maryland, 
Engineers. 

ditto 
South Carolina. 

ditto 

ditto 
Massachusetts. 
South Carolina. 

ditto 

ditio 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Pennsylvania. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
New- York. 

ditto 
North Carolina. 
Lee's Legion. 

ditto 
Pulaskie's Leg. 
South Carolina. 

ditto 

ditto 
North Carolina- 
4th Reg. L. U. 
Massachusetts. 
Pennsylvania. 

ditto 



GENERAL STAFF. 



D. Q. M. Gen. 

ditto 
D. P- M. Gen. 



South Carolina. 
Pennsylvania. 
South Carolina. 



BRIGADE STAFF. 



Brigade Major. 
Brig. Chaplain, 
ditto 



South Carolina. 

ditto 

Virginia. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead- 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
De.d. 
Dead. 

Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead- 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead, 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



37 



GENERAL HOSPITAL. 







STATE 




NAMES. 


RANK. 


OR 

CORPS. 


Remarks. 


David Oljphant, 


Director. 


Southern Army. 


Dead. 


Peter Fays^oux, 


Ph and Surgeon. 


ditto 


Dead. 


Thos. T. T. cker, 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


William Read, 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


John rt itherspoon, 


Surgeon. 


Main Army. 


Dead. 


John L^chman, 


Jun. Surgeon. 


Southern Army. 


Dead. 


Joseph H. Ramsay, 


dit'O 


ditto 


Dead. 


Wm. S. Stevens, 


ditto 


ditto 


Dead. 


Robert Smith, 


Hos. Chaplain, 


ditto 


■ Dead. 



MEMBERS 

ADMITTED AS THE LINEAL DESCENDANTS, AND COLLATERAL BRAN- 
CHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS, AND OF OFFICERS WHO DIED DURING 
THE WAR. 



NAMES. 


When Admitted. 


Remarks. 


Isaac Motte Dart, 


13 Januarv, 1800. 


Dead. 


William A. Moultrie, 


4 July, 1806. 


Dead. 


Lieu Chris. Gadsden, 


ditto 


Dead. 


John Middleton, 


ditto 


Dead. 


Daniel E. Huger, 


ditto 




Gen. A. Vanderhorst, 


ditto 


Dead. 


John Martin, 


13 October, 1806. 


Dead. 


Dr. James Fayssoux, 


12 January, 1807. 


Dead. 


Kobert Smith, 


3 July, 1807. 


Dead. 


Daniel L. Reeves, 


ditto 


Dead. 


Robert Marion, 


4 July, 1807. 


Dead. 


"Will'am Cattell, 


ditto 


Dead. 


Henry W. DeSaussure, 


ditto 


Dead. 


Henry Laurens, 


ditto 


Dead. 


Felix B. Warley, 


4 July, 1808. 


Dead. 


Thomas Shubrick,jun., 


ditto 


Dead. 


James Gilchrist, 


ditto 





HONORARY MEMBERS. 



William Washington, jun. 
Lewis Morris, jun. 
John Grimke, 
Thomas Pinckneyjun. 
Francis K. Huger, 
A. Vanderhorst, jun. 
John Viinderhorst, 
Richard B. Bj,ker,jun. 
Dr. Daniel DVyley, 
Alexander Garden, 
Lionel H. Kennedy, 
Thomas S. Grimke. 



4 July, 1807. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
4 July, 1808. 

ditto 



Dead. 



Dead. 

Dead. 
Dead. 

Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



LIST OF MEMBERS 

ADMITTED SINCE JULY, 1808 



States Gist, 
Alexander Garden, 
George Evans, 
William Simmons, 
William Warley, 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



James Hardy, (of New York,) Dead. 

William Budd, 

J. Harleston Kead, 

W. J. Grayson, 

E. B, Lining, 

H. A. DeSaussure, 

C. R. Greene, Dead. 

George B. Reid, 

William Cattell, Dead. 

William Mason Smith, Dead. 

Daniel D'Oyley, Jr., Dead. 

Charles Lee Edwards, Dead. 

William Hall, 

iEneas S. Reeves, Dead. 

Richard Shubrick, Dead. 

Henry Purcell, Dead. 

Robert B. Gilchrist, 

William Drayton, Dead. 

C. Cotesworth Pinckney, Jr., 



Charles T. Brown, 
Isaac Motte Campbell, 
Simeon Theus, Jr., 
Charles VV. D'Oyley, 
S. B. Rush Finley, 
James Hamilton, 
Charles Warley, 
Geo. W. Egleston, 
John S. Cogdell, 
Richard S. Pinckney. 
E. H. Purcell, 
Paul Trapier, 
Aaron C. Smith, 
Joseph H. Ramsay, 
Charles Lining, 
Ebenezer Flagg, 
William Moultrie Reid, 
Francis Y. Legare, 
Allard H. Belin, 
William B. Shubrick, 
Jacob Warley, 
John B. Laurens, 
John B. Irving, 
Maham Haig, 



Dead. 

Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 

Dead. 
Dead. 

Resigned. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 
Resigned 

Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 

Dead. 



J- Bassnett Legare, Dead. 

Richard W. Cogdell, 

John H. Tucker, 

Thomas Lining, 

Edward R. Pinckney, Dead. 

William B. Ioor, 

R. H. Lining, Dead. 

Barnard S. Elliott, 

W. Moultrie Brailsford, 

Charles T. Haskell, 

Paul Trapier, Resigned. 

W illiam Washington, 

Edward R. Laurens, 

William Patterson, Resigned. 

E. Vanderhorst, 

Robert Q. Pinckney, 

John A. Ramsay, 

W. P. Finley, 

Henry C. Flagg, 

H. W. Peronneau, 

C. A. DeSaussure, 

William C. Fayssoux, Dead. 

J. E. B. Finley, Dead. 

Gibbs L. Elliott. 

Harris Simons, 

Geo. W. Haig, 

Hopson Pinckney, , 

W. W. Ancrum, 

James Simons, 

T. Pinckney Lowndes, Dead. 

J. Harleston Read, Jr. 

J. Hamilton, Jr., Dead. 

Evan Edwards, 

Philip R. Neyle, Dead. 

William G. Ramsay. 

W. J. Lesesne, 

Isaac Lesesne, Dead. 

Charles W. Simons, 

John Greaton, 

Alexander R. Haig, 

Thomas P. Middleton, 

Charles Lee Edwards, 

William E. Haskell, 

Daniel H. Hamilton, 

H. W. DeSaussure, 

W. G. DeSaussure, 

J. Withers Read, 

Thomas Fayssoux, 



40 



John Laurens, 
John J. Edwards, 
John L. Manning, 
Louis D- DeSaussure, 
E. B. Lining, Jr., 
A. S. Johnston, 



Resigned. 



Richard Manning, 
Brown Manning, 
William H. Peronneau, 
William S. Edwards, 
Emilius Irving, 
Thomas R. Egleston. 



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